SA receives grant to fight Aids
by Sapa-AP Moving rapidly for a brand-new bureaucracy, the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria on Thursday awarded its first batch of grants - worth $378 million - to fight the world's...
View ArticleAfrican Nations Applaud Bush Plan to Fight AIDS Epidemic
Rachel L. Swarns Astonished officials here and across southern Africa cheered today as they learned that the Bush administration planned to spend a further $10 billion on AIDS drugs, education,...
View ArticlePharmaceutical interests versus AIDS in Africa
Editorial, Lancet 5 days before boarding a plane to Africa, US President George W Bush announced his nomination of Randall Tobias to serve as Global AIDS Coordinator. If confirmed by the Senate,...
View ArticleKeeping track of patients and drugs in rural Haiti: electronic system is...
Keith Alcorn An internet-based medical record system is proving practical and reliable in one of the worlds poorest countries and should be considered as an essential part of treatment scale-up,...
View ArticleChildren Suffer When Mother Lacks Input, UNICEF Says
Reuters - 10 December, 2006 UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Children are likely to be undernourished in households where women are denied a voice in family decisions like doctor visits, food expenditures...
View ArticleMSF issues 'Top Ten' most underreported humanitarian stories of 2006
Medecins Sans Frontieres New York - The staggering human toll taken by tuberculosis (TB) and malnutrition as well as the devastation caused by wars in the Central African Republic (CAR), Sri Lanka and...
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